It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
JAMES BALDWINYou think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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